Johnny Roosval
John (Johnny) August Emanuel Roosval (29 August 1879 – 18 October 1965) was a Swedish
Biography
Johnny Roosval was born in a bourgeois family in Kalmar, but grew up in Stockholm from the age of five and went to school there.
Education
He studied at Uppsala University from 1897, and finished his kandidat degree in philosophy, Latin, French, and Æsthetics with the history of literature and art, and Scandinavian philology in two years.
In 1899 he went to Berlin as a tutor for the son of the Swedish military attaché there, Henrik de Maré. The son,
Work
Returning from Berlin to Sweden, he worked at the
He remained in Uppsala until 1914, when he moved to the
He also held the
Medieval ecclesiastical art
Roosval is known in particular for his studies of the medieval ecclesiastical art of Gotland, which he described in his Die Kirchen Gotlands: ein Beitrag zur mittelalterlichen Kunstgeschichte Schwedens (Stockholm: Norstedt, 1911) and Die Steinmeister Gottlands (Stockholm: Fritze, 1918).
He also wrote extensively on the Saint George statue in the Stockholm Church of Saint Nicholas (Storkyrkan) and was the first to attribute it to the Lübeck master Bernt Notke. With Sigurd Curman, he co-founded the Sveriges Kyrkor (The Churches of Sweden) documentation project, of which the first volume was published in 1912.
Personal life
- Villa Muramaris
In 1917 the architect Arre Essén designed a country home for him, Villa Muramaris, near of
Johnny Roosval died on 18 October 1965, in Stockholm.
References
Bibliography
- Svanberg, Jan: "Roosval, John (Johnny) August Emanuel", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon 30, pp. 360–368.
External links
Media related to Johnny Roosval at Wikimedia Commons